A 26-year-old man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and molesting a 10-year-old girl in Govandi area on Sunday. Commuters on a local train spotted the accused who was taking the girl to CST, two hours after the
abduction. They caught hold of him and handed him over to the Dadar GRP, which then handed over the accused and the victim to the Shivaji Nagar police.
The arrested accused has been identified as Sayyed Ashraf Sayyed Ashfaq Khan, who is a tailor by profession and stays in the slums of F-line, Baiganwadi.
According to the Shivaji Nagar police, on Sunday evening at around 4.30pm, Rehana (name changed), who lives with her mother and a father who is a tailor, was playing outside her home when Khan approached her and took her along with him on the pretext of taking her on a ride to the city. Since Khan was known to the victim’s family, she did not resist going with him.
Khan first took her to the Govandi railway station in an autorickshaw, and then to Kurla station after
atching a train from Govandi. He changed the train at Kurla and took a CST slow local train from the mainline. An officer said, “While he was traveling with the girl on the train at around 6.30pm, Rehana raised an alarm near Currey Road station that he is forcefully taking her somewhere. Commuters suspecting foul play nabbed Khan and
handed him over to the GRP officials at Currey Road station, who then took him and the girl to the Dadar GRP police station where he confessed that he had kidnapped the girl.”
“The Dadar GRP officials informed the girl’s
parents about the incident, and after registering a Zero FIR, transferred the case and the accused to us,” said Radheshyam Agrawal, senior PI, Shivaji Nagar police station. He added, “The girl was reunited with the family after a medical examination, and Khan was arrested for molestation and kidnap, under relevant sections of the IPC. He was produced before the court on Monday that remanded him to police custody till June 26.”
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Teen circulates fake currency notes, arrested
AGE CORRESPONDENT
Mumbai, june 25
A 19-year-old school dropout, who came to the city just a few weeks ago, has been arrested by the police for allegedly circulating counterfeit currency, after he was caught red-handed while giving a fake `1,000 note for buying soap from a general store in Bhandup (east). The probe is on to nab his aides.
At around 7 pm, Shaikh went to Gupta grocery stores at Chandralok society in Dataar colony, and gave a fake `1,000 note to the store owner Ajay Santlal Gupta, to buy a bar of soap. Mr Gupta checked the note and found it to be fake. He then raised an alarm and the patrolling policemen caught hold of Shaikh.
On checking him, the police found a fake note in the denomination of 1,000, and four others in the denomination of 500, that collectively had a face value of `4,000. Police sub-inspector Yogesh Thakur of the Kanjurmarg police station said, “Shaikh has been booked and produced before a magistrate’s court. He has been remanded to our custody till July 1.”